Strangetown HWC Extras: Alien Eyes and Veronaville Sims

[strangetomato]

I keep flip-flopping on my alien eyes lately (I'm doing the same about skintones, but that's another story). I really love Pixel's alien eyes, but I also love Phobia's, and they match my default eyes (which are Josh's edits of Phobia's recolours of Sarhra's eyes *takes breath*). I'm leaning towards Phobia's lately, even though I had a sentimental attachment to Pixel's eyes because they remind me of Pixel, who is easy to miss. Either way, I'll still have those for Jack. They are HIS alien eyes, and would be my one exception for consistency. I wouldn't alter one of Pixel's most beloved sims, because I know she loved him as-is.
 

 

Here are Phobia's eyes on Helena Summerdream in Veronaville. She's also wearing the Zombie Jill eyeshadow that's become the official Summerdream costume makeup in my game, since it's very mask-like. I'm also playing with some masks from Parsimonious, which I love. The Summerdreams are fun. The makeup is for everyday (for those who like to rock it - Titania and Helena mostly), while the masks come out at parties. I've seen people wondering why everyone in Veronaville is wearing a goofy mask or face paint, but I would imagine it's because they are all at that party at the Summerdreams house when the game begins. I don't think they're meant to be wearing them all the time.

Well, maybe the Summerdreams are.








I'm having a lot of fun with Helena. She's probably my favourite sim I've adopted from someone else's game.




I love this outfit on her, and her makeup matches both her hair and the trim on her sweater dress. Helena is one stylin' chick. I always dress her in green, because she transitions into it without fail. I did pick this outfit, though.

You can see a child Morgan there in the background. The Summerdreams have expanded their family to include quite a few other adopted children, and even one biological child. I'm going for the "have 10 kids" impossible want (I have the hack that counts adoptions towards it, as the game should). Since most are adopted, it seems more possible for them than most sims.

Playing such a full lot is crazy, but fun. I finally had to download that "lot full of sims" hack. Their place is a zoo, I tell you, a ZOO.




Here they are. Only one more child to go to reach ten. It's so crowded, those on the far left get cut off by the edge! I'm super distracted by playing this family lately, as you can surely tell, but I do need a pic of them for the next update, so it's not completely off-track.

The family now consists of Titania, Oberon, Puck, Bottom, Helena, Hippolyta, Nuala, Morgan, Lorelei, Doli, and Mab.

The last three are all half-siblings by Cale Mustardseed (previously Peet - dothesmustle's founder challenge sim). He's a faery romance sim, and I have some half-formed ideas about changelings and such which would explain how he ended up with so many faery children to pass on to the Summerdreams. Most of the other children's parents met terrible ends, had to flee the faery territories for Faerie, or go on some other sort of adventure that would be dangerous for children.

Some of this info will be revealed in the story when Vidcund visits Veronaville, but some of the details of Veronaville (which I'm playing as a whole) will remain mostly in the background. I'll mention things here and there, as I am with Pleasantview.

If my next update is late, now you know why. :P



 

Comments

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

I've had the same problem as you. I decided to keep Pixel's though, I like them justabit more than Phobia's.

I miss Phobia too. :(

OH MY GOODNESS SO MANY SIMS. X_X I love how you have so many delicious combination's too- red headed aliens, S3 and Red hair, FIERCE. I love Titania's makeover too.

And, CC question, where'd you get Helena's hair? It's delicious.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I think I'm leaning towards Phobia's eyes, to be honest. Look how cute they make Jayne:



See those lines in her mouth? You know your sim's genetics are too extreme when you get things like that. D:

Yeah, I like the genetic diversity too, but I have this idea that faeries are mostly redheads, so I went with that. My favourite part of Titania's makeover are her peacock feather earrings, but you probably can't them in this pic.

Helena's hair is one of Simgaroop's recolours:

http://simgaroop.livejournal.com/71399.html

It's a lot like my own haircut right now. ^_^

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

She looks precious! Phobia's eyes are gorgeous. I have them here on my desktop, just in case. :( I haven't seen her around for a while, how dare she just show up and smile as if nothing happened! >:(

That sucks! I've never seen that. Maybe you customized John too much? But her moth is so cute! D:

Thanks for the linkage! I can't believe I didn't download this one!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, John was tweaked within an inch of his life, but damn, he looks like Morrissey. ;)

You don't always see the line. Just sometimes.

I get to show Jayne again in chapter 32. I could have shown her in 31, but it has too many balls in the air already.

(P.S. I'm not posting an update tonight, and maybe not tomorrow either. I have to work a show.)